Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet UsersThe advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.
ChatGPT Can Help Write an Essay. Scientists Want It to Start Folding LaundryArtificial intelligence has revolutionized the virtual world. But reality bytes.
“People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much”It’s long past time to question a fundamental premise of online life: What if people shouldn’t be able to say so much, and to so many, so often?
Before You Google a Business’ Phone Number, Beware of This ScamLost an Amazon package? Need to call your airline because your flight got canceled? Then you need to pay extra attention when trying to find a customer service contact.
‘The White Lotus’ Episode 5: Russian RouletteThis post contains spoilers for the new episode of The White Lotus, “Full Moon Party,” which is now streaming on Max.
China’s Self-Defeating StrategyChina’s armed forces are changing quickly. Over the last 15 years, Beijing has devoted significant resources to developing a military that can project power abroad. It now has three aircraft carriers and a growing fleet of amphibious assault ships.
‘He Has to Shrink Away From Greatness’: The Poignant Surrender of a Republican Under TrumpFew Republican senators give a better floor speech than Thom Tillis of North Carolina does. He’s the Daniel Day-Lewis of moral outrage.
Suspended Falling: A Reading List on WalkingSeven million years ago, maybe more, great apes started walking. We don’t know exactly why, although theories emphasize various evolutionary advantages: energy efficiency, resource transportation, movement versatility, and the ability to scan above the tall savanna grass.
‘The White Lotus’ Episode 4: Timmy Gets His GunThis post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of The White Lotus, “Hide or Seek,” which is now streaming on Max. After the different groups of guests and staffers have been largely siloed from one another, the barriers start to come down throughout “Hide or Seek.
The Real Threat of Chinese AIIn the two months since a little-known Chinese company called DeepSeek released a powerful new open-source AI model, the breakthrough has already begun to transform the global AI market.
Why the White House Car Show Mattered to MuskIt wasn’t so long ago that Elon Musk couldn’t even get an invitation to the White House. The year was 2021, and President Joe Biden was announcing tighter pollution rules and promoting his electric vehicle policies.
You Can’t Trust Us AnymoreOne Trump administration was a mistake; two Trump administrations will be read, correctly, as a divergence that can never be repaired. One response to the egregious, often cruel actions of the Trump administration is outrage.
How to turn ChatGPT into your AI coding power tool - and double your outputI've been experimenting with using ChatGPT to help turbocharge my programming output for over two years. When ChatGPT helped me find a troubling bug, I realized there was something worthwhile in artificial intelligence (AI).
Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test.Since the general AI agent Manus was launched last week, it has spread online like wildfire. And not just in China, where it was developed by the Wuhan-based startup Butterfly Effect.